Bike Tracks

Xindu to Zhongshan Day 291 The night was long, but my sleep was short. All night I felt ants on me and the noise from the streets was unbelievable loud. The hotel bed was simply a plywood board covered with a sheet. It was a harder surface to sleep on, than the ground. The windowless […]

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Wuzhou to Xindu Day 290 Today’s title is “The Day of 10,000 Hello’s!” The streets were lined with humanity all day long, from the city to the country and back to the city again. The children were the happiest and they loudest, shouting at us as we rode, “hello!” They would keep shouting, there was […]

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Hong Kong to Wuzhou Day 289 One last day of travel took us up the Xun Jiang River to Zhaoquing, where we got on buses to take us an additional 4 hours to the town Of Wuzhou. The ferry ride started very early in the morning from Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. The ferry terminal […]

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We fly to Hong Kong from Kuala Lumpur, rest a day then board a ferry for a trip to the mainland of China. The next 13 days will be spent touring southwest China on bicycle. After a long stint without the bikes, we are anxious to get on them again!

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Hong Kong Layover Days 287, 288 Hong Kong is a city of height, it is built on a small space and everything goes up. Walking down the main shopping district gave me a feeling of being in the valley of a canyon, the buildings being the canyon walls. The buses even go with the height […]

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Hiroshima, Japan Day 285 traveling the world Hiroshima suffered a horrible disaster in 1945 from which it has turned into a city with a purpose. We visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum where the horrors of the atom bomb and it’s aftermath are detailed in shocking realty. The Museum takes visitors through a pictorial history […]

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Bus to Sanbe Mountain Day 283 After a maddening night of rain storms the tent got taken down and packed away soaking wet. We were on the road (via bus) again. I kept trying to find enlightenment. Why are we doing this? It is a 6 hour ride to Sanbe, we stay a night then […]

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Amanohashidate Day 281 My time in Kyoto was much to short for my liking. There was so much more to see and do and we were only allowed one day. This morning we board a bus for the beginning of the Japanese bicycle leg from hell. The bus trip was only supposed to be 3 […]

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We arrived at the hotel just prior to noon, local time. We lost an hour on the clock and had been traveling via bus and/or plane for the past 26 hours. I am wound up, our hotel is located across the street from a Japanese Castle, it looks wonderful, with pagoda like guard houses on […]

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We flew from Cairns on the northeast coast of Australia over the top of Australia northwest across Indonesian air space to Malaysia. Changing from a charter to commercial airlines in Kuala Lumpur we traveled back to the northeast over Philippines and Taiwan to Osaka, Japan. It was a long journey. Our bikes are still in […]

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